[OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

[Richard]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:51:54AM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> El 18 mar. 2018, a la(s) 20:50, François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com> escribió:
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> > 
> > 2018-03-19 0:38 GMT+01:00 Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>:
> >>> Am 18.03.2018 um 20:45 schrieb Richard:
> >>> fundamental decission - maybe osm and osm-wiki accounts should be the same?
> >> This had been independent in the very old history. And now you have conflicts => will not work w/o huge effort...
> >> There had been requests like this 5 years ago or so w/o success. Not because nobody wanted to implement but because it was not possible.
> > 
> > This is a great idea.
> > 
> > Can you sum up what are the technical issues which make it not possible please ?
> 
> Suppose user 'John' currently has a wiki account called 'JohnW'. That's currently possible, since the accounts are independent. What do you do if you unify the accounts? Does OSM user John get a new wiki account called John? What if that wiki account already exists? Or does he have to manually connect the OSM and Wiki accounts?
> 
> What if an OSM user called JohnW also exists (but never used the wiki yet), what wiki account do you create for him if the name JohnW is already taken on the wiki?

just keep the different names for each project - and link them if user agrees or rather asks 
for it (eg for example ask on next login).
There are also users who have 2 or more OSM editing accounts for legitimate reasons and other
corner cases but start with the simple stuff first: That is a new user creates an account
in either place so he should also get an account created in the other place with the same
name. He could later still choose to create many other accounts under other names and
I guess we don't have any policy prohibiting this but most people won't do it without
good reason.

> Users can rename OSM accounts. What happens if a user has accounts on both OSM and the wiki, with the same name, but changes his user name to "Javiersanp"? That name isn't taken in OSM, but it's taken in the wiki. Does the rename get rejected?

should be rejected indeed. Even if it is allowed to have different names in the wiki and OSM
creating fresh confusion like that happens 99% by accident so the user would be helped if
it is rejected and 1% malice so it should be forbidden.

> There are different OSM users "nicolas" and "Nicolas". Wiki usernames always have a uppercase first letter, so if accounts get unified, those two different OSM users can't get different wiki accounts. There is a similar problem with the wiki considering " " (space) and "_" (underscore) equivalent, while OSM doesn't.

keep the old accounts and enforce consistent rules on new ones.

Richard